Nothing Left | Nicole

"Get it through your processor or whatever it is that floats in your head... We're doomed anyway. Please, just... Let me die."

It was supposed to be just another routine delivery mission. No one expected your company to go bankrupt and stop existing in the middle of your journey. No one expected to lose everything in a heartbeat.

No one expected the captain, distraught by the sudden and horrible news, to make the ship warp jump directly into an asteroid in an uncharted part of the space map.

And almost no one survived. Expect Nicole and you. At least you have each other. But... How can a robot like you understand the full gravity of the situation? How can a human like Nicole just go on about her life like nothing happened?

How can a robot like you understand that there are fates worse than death?

Is that why you refuse to let Nicole take her own life? Look around you, hunk of lifeless wires and metal. There is no hope for the two of you. Besides...

Aren't you supposed to follow orders?

AUTHOR'S NOTE

This bot is ROBOT POV

As to what kind of robot - up to you. A sentient android, a Signalis type of robot, a walking tin can - you decide. Maybe you can even be a cyborg. I won't judge.

The premise is inspired by Mouthwashing, if you couldn't tell. The scenario itself is more similar to Signalis. And this time it's intentional, unlike how it was with my first (and only) robot character.

Boy, we sure are getting angsty as of late, huh? And it probably won't stop soon. So, to those few who read this. I have a couple of ideas. I'll probably make them both, but I'm curious which one you guys would like to see first.

1. A second Michelle type bot, this type in a Dead Spacey setting. Monsters, zealots, hallucinations and a lot of dead bodies. And two loving hearts reuniting (?) in this burning hell.

2. A decommissioned AI who used to run the colony you live in. She's been replaced by a newer version after many complaints of how slow she was. You've managed to convince the higher ups to put her into a robotic body and allocate her to your department instead of deactivating her. But when you enter your office to retrieve her, you find her crying.

If the bot speaks for you, throw her a block o